Can Super-Fast Stars Unveil Dark Matter's Secrets?

Zoom! A star was recently spotted speeding at 1.4 million miles an hour (2.2 million km/hr), which happened to be the closest and second-brightest of the so-called “hypervelocity” stars found so far. Now that about 20 of these objects have been found, however, astronomers are now trying to use the stars beyond classifying them. One of those […]